Nut for musical instruments



Sept. 1, .1926. 1,599,184

B. POLIHRONIS. NOW'BY JUDICIAL CHANGE OF NAME Wv J. POLYCHRONIS NUT FORMUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Filed Sept. 7, 192g Patented Sept. 7, 1926.

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BILLY POLIHRONIS, NOW BY JUDICIAL CHANGE OF NAME WILLIAM JIMPOLYCHRONIS,

- OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

NUT FOB MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

Application filed September 7, 1922. Serial No. 586,730.

My invention relates to musical instrument nuts in general, andparticularly to the nuts used with the steel or Hawaiian guitar, theobject being to provide a removable nut that will preserve the properlength of the strings, that will lift the strings a greater distanceabove the frets than the regular guitar nut, that will preserve the toneof the instrument, and that will cause the tops of all the strings tolie in the same substantially horizontal plane so that the all may betouched with the steel bar w en playing without unduly depressing anysingle string.

I accomplish these objectsby means of the construction illustrated inthe accompanying drawin which is a part of this application for ettersPatent, like characters of reference indicating like parts throughoutthe several views thereof, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view (if the neck of a guitar withmy device mounted thereupon, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of mydevice upon an enlarged scale.

My device is disposed above and upon the regular instrument nut 3, havina body portion 4 above said nut 3, a rear eg 5 and a front leg 6 adaptedto receive said nut 3 therebetween, as shown in Fig. 1. The body portion4 is curved rearwardly and downwardly to meet the rear leg 5.

To preserve the proper length of the strings of the instrument I providethat the forward face 7 of my device shall lie in the same verticalplane as the forward face of the nut 3, as shown by line 88 in Fig. 1.

It is obvious that my device will lift the instrument strin a greaterdistance from the frets than t e regular nut 3, as illustrated by thestring 9 in Fig. 1.

To preserve the tone of the instrument it is desirable that the nut be asolid member,

and'this I provide for by making the body portion 4 solid, and havingsaid body portion and the legs 5 and 6 in contact at all points with theinstrument nut 3, as shown in Fig. 1.

Notches 10 are provided in the upper face of the body portion 4, and toprovide that the upper surface of all strings shall lie in substantiallythe same horizontal plane, said notches are of various depthscorresponding to the diameters of their respective strings, asillustrated in Fig. 2.

My device may be made of any size, and constructed of any materialsdeemed convenient and suitable for a device of this character, and whileI have illustrated and described a form of construction found desirablein materializing my invention, I wish to include in this application allmechanical equivalents and substitutes that may fairly be considered tocome within the scope and purview of my invention as defined in the apended claim.

aving disclosed my invention so that others may be enabled to constructand to use the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

In a removable instrument nut: a body portion adapted to embrace theregular instrument nut; and a portion uprising from said body portionand having a forward surface lying in the same plane as the forward faceof the regular instrument nut.

In witness whereof I claim the foregoing as my own I hereunto affix mysignature at Portland, county of Multnomah, State of Oregon, this 2ndday of Sept. 1922.

BILLY POLIHRONIS.

